Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he managed to become chairman of the cross-party Public Accounts Committee as well as of the 1922 committee of back-benchers from which position he played a key role in Heath 's downfall as part of the Milk Street gang ( named after the street of his very minor merchant bank , Keyser Ullmann ) . |
| 2 | Dr John Ball , a member of the Greenfield working party and chairman of the General Medical Services Committee of the British Medical Association , told New Scientist this week that he no longer backed the plan to substitute expensive branded products with cheaper ‘ generic ’ versions . |
| 3 | Galarrwuy Yunupingu , chairman of the aboriginal Northern Lands Council , welcomed the decision and predicted that the federal government would face a " barrage of litigation " unless it moved quickly to negotiate a treaty with the aborigines . |
| 4 | The Berlin Blockade of June heralded the stationing of the first three US bomber groups in the United Kingdom in July ; and was followed by Montgomery 's appointment as Chairman of the Western European Chiefs of Staff committee in November , and the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty the following April , coincidently with the passage of the US Mutual Defence Aid Programme through Congress . |
| 5 | Les Aspin , a member of the US Congress and chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee , said he had a ‘ nasty surprise ’ when he saw Soviet tanks fitted with the multi-layer reactive armour during a visit to the Ukraine in August . |
| 6 | As chairman of the influential social services select committee , he has regularly won headlines for the Labour Party on welfare issues . |
| 7 | Two years earlier , George Meany , chairman of the combined American unions , the AFL-CIO , proclaimed that American labour had ‘ never had it so good ’ — which was true . |
| 8 | During the fair the appointment of Hans König as Chairman of the European Fine Arts Foundation ( the Fair 's organisers ) was announced . |
| 9 | The accident was seen by Iain Macdonald , a Strathclyde regional councillor who is chairman of the Nuclear Free Zones Scotland organisation : ‘ We have seen with our own eyes how simple it is for a road accident to take place and there is no reason why the convoy itself could not have been involved . |
| 10 | Last but not least we have the Communist Party led by that veteran Miss Sinclair , who is the chairman of the whole civil rights movement . |
| 11 | In Darlington 's Milton Street , the chairman of the local Liberal Democrats pointed to an example of a street where the variety of houses meant valuers would be hard pressed to give accurate prices . |
| 12 | On July 2 a commission of inquiry was announced , composed of six lawyers and human rights activists , including Kamel Rezzak Bara , chairman of the National Human Rights Monitoring Group , and Yousef Fethallah , head of the Algerian League of Human Rights . |
| 13 | But as Lord Limerick , chairman of the British Invisible Exports Council , points out in the council 's latest annual report , British investors appear unusally skilled at building up , and generating earnings from , overseas portfolios . |
| 14 | Which former Tory cabinet minister became chairman of the Royal Fine Arts Commission in 1985 ? |